Gardens, old and new; the country house & its garden environment (1900)
Leyland, John, 1857?-1924, ed, Tipping, H. Avray (Henry Avray), 1855-1933, ed, Country Life Limited · London, The Offices of "Country life illustrated": George Newnes, Ltd., New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 319
formedupon so attractive a sleep. To survey these gardens is,indeed, something of a liberal education in the splendidaspects of the art of gardening. Through the centre runs amaghificent green drive bordered with arbor-vita; and yew.Green drives are als) cut and kept mown through iheparks and woods… … A WALK BY THt GREAT STAIRWAY. The splendour of the gardens must appeal to all. They areset in a large wild park, full of deer, and planted with treesboth new and old. The latter belong probably to the era ofthe old Hall, the former to that of the present house, whichwas rebuilt for Sir William…
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